Question
A poem that begins “after every war / someone has to clean up” ends by describing someone with this substance “in his mouth / gazing at the clouds.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance, which “has overgrown causes and effects” in “The End and the Beginning.” A child asks “What is [this substance]?” in a collection named for this “uncut hair of graves.”
ANSWER: grass [or “blades of grass”; or trawie or kłosem; accept “an ear of corn” as that is an alternate translation for kłosem; accept Leaves of Grass]
[10h] “The End and the Beginning” was written by this poet of “Salt” and Calling Out to Yeti. This Polish Nobel laureate lists reasons that a woman could have looked back in “Lot’s Wife.”
ANSWER: Wislawa Szymborska (“vis-WAH-vah shim-BOR-skah”)
[10e] Szymborska is from this country, whose national epic is Adam Mickiewicz’s (“meets-KYAY-veech”) Pan Tadeusz (“pahn tah-DAY-oosh”). Joseph Conrad moved from this modern-day nation to the UK.
ANSWER: Poland [or the Republic of Poland; or Polska; or Rzeczpospolita Polska]
<Jaimie Carlson, Literature - European - Poetry> ~23294~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 33 | 17.27 | 82% | 70% | 21% |